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Scan for personally identifiable information with BlueXP classification

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Within the BlueXP ransomware protection service, you can use BlueXP classification, a core component of the BlueXP family, to scan and classify your data on a file share workload. Classifying data helps you identify whether your data includes personally identifiable information (PII), which can increase security risks.

Tip This process can impact workload importance to help you ensure that you have the appropriate protection.

Enable BlueXP classification

Before you use BlueXP classification within the BlueXP ransomware protection service, you need to enable BlueXP classification to scan your data.

By using the BlueXP classification UI as an alternate method, an administrator can enable BlueXP classification in BlueXP ransomware protection.

It might be helpful to review these BlueXP classification resources before you begin to use the service:

Before you begin

Scanning for PII data in BlueXP ransomware protection is available to customers who deployed BlueXP classification. BlueXP classification is available as part of the BlueXP platform at no extra charge and can be deployed on-premises or in the customer cloud.

Steps

  1. From the BlueXP ransomware protection menu, select Protection.

  2. In the Protection page, locate a file share workload in the Workload column.

    Protection page showing Privacy exposure column

  3. To enable BlueXP classification to scan your data for personally identifiable data, in the Privacy exposure column, select Identify exposure.

Result

Scanning might take several minutes depending on the amount of data. The Protection page shows that BlueXP classification is identifying files and gives you an indication of the number of files it is scanning.

When scanning is complete, the Privacy exposure column displays the exposure level as Low, Medium, or High.

Review the privacy exposure

After BlueXP classification scans for personally identifiable information (PII), you can look at the PII data risk.

PII data can have one of the following privacy exposure risk statuses.

  • High: Greater than 70% of files have PII

  • Medium: Greater than 30% and less than 70% of files have PII

  • Low: Greater than 0 and less than 30% of files have PII

Steps

  1. From the BlueXP ransomware protection menu, select Protection.

  2. In the Protection page, locate the file share workload in the Workload column that shows a status in the Privacy exposure column.

    Protection page showing Privacy exposure column

  3. Select the workload link in the Workload column to see workload details.

    Workload details screen showing the Privacy exposure tile

  4. In the Workload details page, review the information in the Privacy exposure tile.

Impact of privacy exposure on workload importance

Privacy exposure changes can impact the workload importance.

When privacy exposure: From this privacy exposure: To this privacy exposure: Then, workload importance does this:



.

Decreases

High, Medium, or Low

Medium, Low, or None

Remains the same

Increases

None

Low

Remains at Standard

Low

Medium

Changes from Standard to Important

Low or Medium

High

Changes from Standard or Important to Critical

For more information

For details about BlueXP classification, refer to the following BlueXP classification topics: